Lena Stolze
(The
Nasty Girl) stars
as Sophie Scholl in Michael Verhoeven’s acclaimed feature film based
on the true story of five German students and their professor who formed
a secret society dedicated to protesting the Nazi regime.

Known
collectively as the "White Rose," the Munich-based group which
included siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl, distributed anti-Hitler literature
in a resistance effort that cost them their lives.

Initially,
the German government refused to allow the film to be shown abroad due
to an epilogue which pointedly observed that the legal judgment condemning
the White Rose society had never been rescinded. Ultimately, the political
controversy surrounding Verhoeven's film directly caused the German government
to officially invalidate the Nazi "People's Court" system that
sentenced the group to death.